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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1913)
VOL. XXVII. SUPERIOR COURT IS IN SESSION HERE February Term Began Last Monday For Week On Civil Cases. The February term of Mont gomery Superior Court met at the hour of 10 on Monday morn ing. Judge E. D. Graham is presiding and long years of ser vice in the court gives him that poise in administration that us ually comes with experience. The state’s interest is being look ed after by Hon. W. A. Wooten, whose well-known energy and strict integrity insure good work for the 'people who have called him to this place. In addition to the local bar; we note on Monday the attendance of Eschol Graham, Mcßae; Gen. P. W. Meldrim, Savannah; P. W. Williams, Lyons; C. P. Thompson and Col. Tomlinson, Alamo; A. C. Saffold, Cochran; W. C. McAllister, Mcßae. The week will be devoted to civil business, and several cases have been tried. No case invol ving any large amount has yet come up for trial. The attendance has been large and the interest in the proceedings continues. Grows 20,000 Bushels of Corn on 450 Acres. Taylor, Mo., January 10. Cicero Whitaker, in the estima tion of farmers in this section has justly won the title of “Corn King of Northeast Missouri. On 450 acres of ground near Taylor he has grown more than 20,000 bushels of corn. It is all har vested with the exception of 1100 shocks, which will average five bushels to a shock. He has sold . 6,000 bushels at prices ranging from 40 to 45 cents per bushel and will reserve the remainder for fattening beef and pork. Watch is Put Into Grate and is Ruined. Valdosta, Feb. I.—J. H. Touch tone, a well known Valdosta bus iness man, lost his handsome gold watch in an unusual manner last night, when he unwittingly burn ed it up in a grate. Mr. Touchtone went put in his yard late in the afternoon to get some kindling, and while stoop ing down to get a handful of tur pentine dross the watch dropped from his pocket into the dross, which he carried in and threw into the grate. He did not miss the watch until he prepared to go to bed, when his search finally j revealed the mass of gold that had formerly been his timepiece. The watch remained in the grate for several hours and of course was completely ruined. Lange’s Show Comes And Makes Gala Week. Mt. Vernon has been aglow with entertainment this week, and many visitors have had op portunity of enjoying it. The chief attraction of course is the performance of Lange’s Model Shows, which have been holding forth since Monday, and which will fill out the week with their merrymaking. Since opening i up here Monday this aggregation has enjoyed a continual patron age, the regular performances in the afternoon and evening being especially pleasing to the man agement. The Lange show is of tfie carnival type, and is much more complete than the average carnival type, carrying a large number of devices for entertain ment, besides the Ferris wheel and merry-go-around. Mr. Lange and his able corps of helpers are making an earnest effort to give the people a good, clean show of high merits and in this they are succeeding. Their minstrel fea ture, including the “Old Planta tion,” is a star attraction. I mptttgomgnj iMmtttor. t Early Morning Fire. An early blaze in a closet in the residence of Mrs. Chas. Hicks here Tuesday morning caused some excitement, and came near being a serious conflagration. Little Pat was in quest of his shoes and, using a torch, set fire to the clothing hanging in the closet which burned some time before it was discovered. The fire was confined to the closet, biit before being entinguished had burned a trunk and about forty or fifty dollars worth of clothing. Champion Debaters At Emory College. The Atlanta Journal of Tues day contains the pictures of the champion debaters at Emory College for the Few and Phi Gammi societies at commence ment. In the Few’s representa tives Mr. J. E. Mathews of Vi dalia appears, and for the Phi Gammi Mr. Clifford Mcßride of Ailey is given. This section is proud of these young men and expects to hear from them in the future. Found Dead in Bed At Sharpe’s Spur. On Monday morning Will Wil son, a negro man at Sharpe’s l Spur did not get up to breakfast, and on being called was found dead in bed. Another negro slept with him, and crawled out of bed over the man who was i sleeping his last long sleep, with out discovering that his compan ion was dead. Justice Johnson of the Alston District held an in quest over the remains, and the verdict was death from natural I causes. COMMISSIONERS HOLD MONTHLY MEETING Decide To Abolsh Ferries And Sell Out Boats And Cables. The Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue held their regular monthly meeting Tues day, the business calling them back again on yesterday. The transactions were mostly of a routine character. The most im portant measure disposed of was that of making disposition of the ferries owned and operated by the county. By reference to our advertising columns, it will seen that the flats and epuipment are to be sold, and the crossings dis continued as far as the county is |concerned. Weather Knocks out The Basketball Game. The heavy downpour of rain on ' Monday caused the game of bas ketball, which was to have been played at Dublin between the j Dublin High School team and the : Brewton-Parker Institute team of Mt. Vernon, to be called off. The 8.-P. I. team went up to play, accompanied by several students of the school, and the party was very much disappoint i ed by the weather. FREE FERRIES DISCONTINUED. State of Georgia Montgomery County. In the Court of Roads and Revenues of said ' County, at Regular meeting assembled this the Ist Tuesday in February, 1918. Wherefore.it has been made apparent to this body since the creation of the new County of Wheeler out of that part of Montgomery County west of the Oconee river, and. Wherefore, the ferries heretofore operated across , the Oconee river at Lamm on's Ferry near Mt. Vernon, Ca., and at Hell’s Ferry, near Charlotte, Ga., the County of Montgomery, are now pub lic highways to be operated by the two adjoining counties, and, Wherefore, the adjoining county of Wheeler re fuses to pay her pro rata share of the expense of operating said ferries, it is. therefore. Ordered and adjudged by this court that said ferries lx; and they are hereby discontinued. It is further considered, ordered and adjudged by this Ixriy that said ferry boatn, cables, ropes and all apparatus connected therewith for the op eration of said ferry boats, heretofore operated and being the property of this, Montgomery County, lx: offered for sale to the highest bidder for cash before the court house door of said county on the* Ist Tuesday in March, 1918, and that the proceed* arising from said sale Ik* appropriated to th* bridge fund of said county. This the 4th day of February, 1918 W. H Moxi.ky, Chairman. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEB. 6, 1913. General News Items l l Told in Short Meter. The Merchants and Miners wharves in Savannah, owned by ■ the Central of Georgia Railway, 1 ! were burned early Sunday morn ing at a loss of $1,500,000. The steamer Prinz Oskar, which sailed from Philadelphia on Saturday for Hamburg, ran into the City of Georgetown, a i four-masted schooner, off Dela ware breakwater Sunday and sank the vessel. From a boy’s cry of fire in an eastside theater in New York on Sunday night, a panic occurred in which two women were crush-! ' ed to death and many othersjwere severely injured. Pridgen Beasley, .of Bulloch county will be 100 years old on the last day of this month. But he has only seen 25 real birth days, as he was born on the 29th of February. Tarver Glenn, a farmer near Athens has discovered that a drove of pigs was getting all the milk from his herd of Jersey cows. And the cows seemed to enjoy the new way of being milk ed. Company B, Confederate Vet erans of Nashville, Tenn., wear ing their grey uniforms and carrying the rifles and side arms that they bore in the Civil War, will march in the inaugural pa rade on March 4th. Robbers entered the postoffice at Stillmore Sunday night and secured about S4OO in cash, be- 1 sides a lot of stamps. This was the second attempt in ten days to rob the office. Atlanta is to have a new morn- , ing daily paper to be known as the Atlanta American. The first number will appear about March 15. Emmett Williams, the newly elected Ordinary of Walton coun ty has submitted a statement to the citizens showing the indebt edness of the county to be $62, - 510. Strong Endorsements O? Mr. L. Chavous. We take pleasure in reproduc ing the following testimonials to the character and ability of Mr. L. Chavous, who seeks the ap- ( pointment of county superinten- j, dent of schools for Wheeler coun ty: Mt. Vernon, Ga,, Jan. 15, 1913. To whom it may concern: This certifies that I have known i Mr. Lionel Chavous from his childhood, and that I take great pleasure in commending him to the County Board of Education of Wheeler county as a suitable man for the office of County School Superintendent. His ed ucation and experience as a teacher, together with his good judgment and high moral and; Christian character, fit him well for the office; he having had nor mal training and about twelve years experience as a teacher. Respectfully, J. T. Smith. Mt. Vernon, Ga., Feb. 3, 1913. ! This is to certify that Prof L. Chavous has been teaching in the schools of Montgomery coun ty for several years and has 1 given satisfaction to all concern ed. He is well qualified to fill any position as teacher or Supt. of schools and will do well any thing he undertakes. Respectfully, A. B Hutcheson, C. S. C. i ' A special dividend was declar i ed by the Standard Oil Co. on Saturday and John I). Rocekfel ler’s share was $10,000,000. H. H. Beecher, an old Confed erate veteran, was arrested and fined SIOO and costs by the mayor of Baxley last Saturday for ope rating a merry-go-round, it being against the town law. The body of a white male in fant, probably three days old, was found Saturday morning floating in the river at Savannah wrapped in a napkin and a news paper and put in a pasteboard box. The state prison farm at Mil ledgeville has 400 acres sown in oats, and the crop promises a large yield. A sheep owned by C. W. Stew art of Helena gave birth to three lambs last week, and they are all strong and frisky. The Georgia and Florida rail road was reorganized at a meet ing of the directors in Augusta; on Friday, It. L. Williams of Baltimore was elected president in place of his brother John Skelton Williams. Mrs. Ann E. Grady, mother of the lamented Henry W. Grady, died in Atlanta on Friday morn ing, and the body was taken to Athens for burial. The frenzied women of London, fighting for female suffrage, have destroyed property to the amount of $250,000, Mr. and Mrs. Whiteside of Baltimore will celebrate their 86th birthday Monday, having been born on the same day at tended by the same nurse, and have lived in the same house 65 years. “Park in the Pines” hotel at Aiken, S. C., was burned on Sun day last. The loss is $250,000. York Lee, a negro who was helping to clean out a gasolene tank at Brunswick Saturday, was overcome by the fumes and was found dead in the bottom of the tank. Plans are Being Made For Dublin Chautauqua. Dublin, Feb. 1. —Plans are now under way for a chautauqua to be held in this city during the summer, and the program is now ' being worked out by Prof. It. E. Brooks, and Frank Lawson. It has been several years since a chautauqua was held here and | it is thought that one will be very 'acceptable to the people here this ; summer. The new opera house ; will probably be finished in time to allow its use for the chautau qua. The program will be one of the best of any meeting of this kind held in the state this year and some of the best talent on the platform will be brought to the city for it. ! • Big Sale of Autos in Month of January. Notwithstanding the fact that January is recognized among au tomobile dealers as the worst month of the year for their bus iness, the records of the office of secretary of state show a fine increase in Georgia sales this year over January 1912. The total number of machines 'sold in January last year was 315, against a total this year of 353. And this, despite the fact that January of 1912 was a bright sunshiny month, whereas this was one of almost continuous rain. Atlanta automobile dealers be lieve that the figures recorded so far in the secretary’s office indi cate a record-breaking sales year in the business. THE LYNN CASE. A case of more than passing I interest is the Lynn case to be . tried in Laurens superior court this week. A. L. Lynn and his . wife are to be put on trial for the killing of F. M. Hightower in ■ December. Mrs. Lynn claimed to have fired the seven balls that pierced Hightower’s body, but Lynn was also arrested and jail ed. A joint indictment was re i turned by the grand jury last ! week, and the case will probably ■com* p foi trial this week. Mrs. Lynn’s defense will be that she | shot Hightower while he was at tempting to assault her. Powder F'rom Shells Blows Jail Door Lock. Adel, Feb, 3. —Gordon Bennett almost succeeding in breaking out of jail at this place last night by blowing the locks from the doors with powder from shells he had in his pocket. He succeeded in getting out of the cell in which he was confined, but could not damage the outside I door, because of the large key hole. He has just been released from the asylum, and on account of some threats he made against a member of the jury which tried him on the insanity charge, he was placed in the town jail. He had some shells in his pocket, j took the powder out of them, and filled the locks full. The lock on the cell door was blown off, but the large key hole in the outer door acted as an outlet and no damage was done. t NEGRO SHOT BY ANOTHER AT AIEEY. Lonnie Hopkins Shoots Geo. Coleman Twice With 38-Calibre Pistol. In an altercation early Monday;, morning at Alley, Lonnie Hopkins shot and perhaps fatally wound- ; ed George Coleman, both colored. ; It seems that Coleman was es-, pecially fond of food cooked by i, Hopkins’ wife and the trouble arose over too much kindness shown Coleman by the woman. Hopkins fired two shots from a 38-calibre pistol into Coleman’s hack, one ball passing through ! I his lung and the other through his stomach. It is not thought that Coleman can live. ( Wilson Invited To His old Home. Columbia, S. C., Feb. 3. —The committee having in charge the invitation to President-elect Woodrow Wilson to make bis winter home in Columbia held a meeting today, at which time the plans for bringing the next presi-j, dent to Columbia were discussed, i Through Lhe courtesy and pub- 1 lie rit o' Mrs. J. M. Van Metre, j t.h< coiiimii.tee has been given the ! opportunity to offer to President Wilson and his family, for their | use as a winter home, the beau- 1 tiful residence on Hampton street now owned and occupied by Mrs. VanMetre, which was designed by President Wilson’s mother, and in which the next president lived as a hoy. When the invi- j tation from Columbia was pre sented to him, Governor Wilson was very much pleased to know that this home, dear to him from boyhood recollections, was avail able for his use. Mayor Gibbes is the chairman and Mr. James A. Hoyt, the] secretary of the committee which has this matter in charge. New Carload Mules. After selling one carload of mules in Uvalda this season, the Murfreesboro Live Stock Co. has just received a second car of high-class mules at that place, ! and invite the farmeas of this ! county to go at once and look j over them. The reputation of this firm is back of every animal they sell, and their prices are | right, ad. HR. C. G. THOMPSON GOT HiS LEG BROKEN Belt Breaks at Mill and the Flying End Deals Him a Severe Blow. Mr. Collie G. Thompson hap pened to a serious accident at the mill recently located a mile from Mt. Vernon. On Tuesday morning after getting under headway, the main belt of the mill broke, and the end striking Mr. Thompson’s leg, caused a serious fracture below the knee. He was quickly taken to the of fice of Dr. J. W. Palmer at Ailey and the broken member attended to. We hope Mr. Thompson will soon be out again, for this sec tion knows no more industrious and progressive young men than | Mr. Thompson and his brothers. Laurens Citizen 102 Yrs. Old Mr James Barlow, who lives with his daughter, Mrs. J. L. Ussery, in this county, is prob ably the oldest citizen living here now, being 102 years of age and still in good health. Mr. Barlow celebrated his 102nd birthday on the 18th of Decem ! her last. The grearer portion of ; his life has been spent in Laurens 1 county, where he has lived for many years. His wife died in 1008, after they had lived togeth er for 70 years, she being 87 years of age at the time of her death. Besides Mrs. Ussery, Mr. Barlow has two daughters and a son, Mrs. G.B. Ward of Twiggs county, Mrs. Mary Ann Ward of Washington county and Mr. A. W. Barlow of Montgomery coun ty. lie is now enjoying splendid health for a man of his age and has spent the most of his life on the farm, where he has lived simply and thrived on good coun try living and hard work. He has a splendid memory and can talk interestingly of events and peo ple of years and years ago, and carries his age well. — Dublin Courier-Dispatch. Coming To Glenwood. Dr. J. E. Masrow, the well known eye-sight specialist, will be in Glenwood, Saturday, Feb. 8, at Cameron Drug Store from 10:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. Dr. Masrow has examined the eyes of thousands of people of this state and hundreds in this county. The benefits received by those wearing his glasses have been most phenomenal. Beware of the man who travels from town to town or house to house and has no office. You have all heard of Dr. Masrow’s great woik, and many testimonials telling of the success he has had in fitting glasses have appeared from time to time in the papers. Those who got glasses from Dr. Masrow in the last few years, if they need changing he will change them free of charge. Remember the above date and hour. adv. NEXT LYCEUM NUMBER WILL BE FINE. Olivette Concert Party Next Attraction at the 8.-P. Institute. On the evening of Feb. 10th, at 8:00 o'clock the Olivette Con cert Party will presentone of the finest attractions of the Alkahest Lyceum Course in the auditorium | of the Brewton-Parker Institute. I Each one of the four charming and gifted young ladies compos i ing the party is an artist in her line, and their vocal and piano solos, violin solos, duets, read ings, impersonation and dramatic sketches will be something fine. The price of admission for adult visitors will be 50 cts., and for students 25 cts. We predict that this will be the best num ber of the season, but every | number presented so far has been 1 a good one. NO. 40.
